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- DOCUMENT:Q110291 21-JAN-1994 [W_NT]
- TITLE :Account Policy on New User Not Enforced
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:BUGLIST3.10
-
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- The information in this article applies to:
-
- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
- - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
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-
- SYMPTOMS
- ========
-
- Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced Server do not enforce account policy of
- minimum password length restriction to new users created from the User
- Manager. The behavior is different in Windows NT and Windows NT Advanced
- Server as follows:
-
- If the account policy is made so that the minimum password length must be
- at least five characters:
-
- - On a Windows NT Advanced Server machine:
-
- - If a new user is created from the User Manager for domains with just
- the option of "User Must Change Password at Next Logon," any password
- of fewer than five characters is accepted. The user can logon with
- this invalid password and the subsequent password follows the account
- policy and prompts if the password length is less than five
- characters.
-
- - If the new user is created with the remaining options of Password
- Never Expires or Password Cannot Be Changed, the account policy is
- enforced by prompting for a password of at least five characters.
-
- - On a Windows NT machine, a user can be created from User Manager with
- any of the following options and it accepts a password with fewer
- characters than the minimum password length, thereby not following the
- account policy:
-
- - "User Must Change Password at Next Logon"
- - Password Never Expires
- - Password Cannot Be Changed
-
- STATUS
- ======
-
- Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT and Windows NT
- Advanced Server version 3.1. We are researching this problem and will post
- new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes
- available.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10
- KBCategory:
- KBSubCategory: winnt
-
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